NEW YORK
Newsday
BY DEBORAH MORRIS AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
STAFF WRITERS
April 19, 2005, 6:19 PM EDT
A Brooklyn pastor has been charged with sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy who regularly stayed over his house, telling him that God would cripple him for life if he told authorities, police sources said.
Donald Jean, 35, said nothing Monday night as he surrendered to authorities and was arrested and charged with sexual abuse, criminal sexual act and endangering the welfare of a child.
His alleged victim told detectives that Jean abused him during an overnight stay on Tuesday at Jean's Canarsie home on East 95th Street. The alleged victim reported the abuse on Saturday, and was examined at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.
It was the sixth time, a police source said, in which Jean allegedly attacked the teen, who knows the pastor because his family attends services at his storefront church, Soul Restoration of City Light, on Flatbush Avenue.